iSSS.] Fifth Meeting of the Amen'cuji Oniithologis^ts Union. 99 



This ended the first day's session. At the second day's ses- 

 sion, under the call for miscellaneous business, the President 

 referred to the Treasurer's statement of the indebtedness of the 

 Union and of the great desirability of providing for its imme- 

 diate payment. He called attention to the provision made in 

 the By-Laws adopted the previous day foi" life membership, and 

 stated that he thought he saw in tiiis a speedy v^^ay of raising 

 tlie needed funds. A life membership yielding $ioo, five of 

 them would suffice for present needs. Two members had al- 

 ready subscribed for life memberships, and another had been 

 taken conditionally upon five being secured. At this point, Col- 

 onel N. S. Goss arose and asked to be recorded for a life mem- 

 bership, and was immediately followed by Dr. J. C. Merrill, 

 who stated that he would also become a life member. This 

 completed the five required to cancel the present indebtedness, 

 the other life members being William Brewster, Charles B. 

 Cory, and Dr. Cones. The President congratulated the Union 

 on this gratifying turn in its financial aflairs, which evidently gave 

 great satisfaction to all present. 



The remainder of the second day's session was devoted to 

 the reading of scientific papers, this feature of the meeting 

 being appropriately opened by an address on the life and sci- 

 entific services of our late leader. Professor Spencer F. Baiid, 

 prepared by Mr. Robert Ridgway and read, in his absence, by 

 the Secretary.* Other papers which followed are : 'Notes 

 on Gvmnostinops jnofztezzimce^' by N. S. Goss ; -Cormorant 

 Fishing in Japan,' by P. L. Jouey ; 'The Fishing-habits of the 

 Wliite Pelican {^Pelecanus erythrorhyitchusY ^ by Colonel 

 Goss ; 'Occurrence of the Evening Grosbeak in Iowa,' by C. R. 

 Keyes (read by C. F. Batchelder) ; 'A List of the birds of 

 Fulton County, Ky.,' by L. O. Pindar (read by the Secretary) ; 

 'A Bird Wave,' by Phillip Cox (read by M. Chamberlain) ; 'The 

 Nocturnal Migration of Birds,' by Frank M. Chapman. The 

 Secretary presented some observations made by Mr. W^illiam 

 Lloyd, in the arid region of Western Texas, on the distance from 

 water at which certain birds are found. Several of the papers 

 elicited remarks from various members, and Mr. Cliapman's 

 paper was discussed at length by Messrs. Brewster, Chapman, 

 Cory, Jefiries, Merriam, and others. At the third day's session 



♦The address is given in full as the first article of the present number of 'The Auk." 



